New blog post: Wading into the comments on The Great Divide by Noah Kahan #music

From 1Password’s blog: Don’t use OpenClaw on a work computer.

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Trying out StoryGraph for a book reading journal. Thank you to whoever recommended The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.

Proud / anxious parenting moment as my oldest flies solo across the country to hang with friends for a few weeks. I like to think Neville is trying to see the plane go overhead. 😊

A flight path is shown on a map traveling to Toronto, Canada, east across North America.A dog sits on a snowy wooden deck at night, surrounded by outdoor furniture and illuminated by ambient lighting.

Post hair-did. Trying my best to match #TedLasso.

Selfie a day for a year, day 166, Jan 31, 2026 edition.

A man with glasses is looking at the camera while standing next to a framed cartoonish illustration of Ted Lasso.

Check engine oil light came on in my vehicle and it’s like: read the room truck!? There’s a lot going on right now. You’re going to have to power through with old oil for a bit. 😝

Wonder Man, 2026 - ★★★½

Watched on Friday January 30, 2026.

I published a new YouTube video on my channel for anyone who wants to convert Logic Pro markers to a Markdown linked list for a #podcast website. Pretty small niche I realize. 😆 youtu.be/SDgd_MJ0z…

The wind is still gross out there even though technically it’s warmed up. The eternal winter glasses dilemma: Cold nose, but glasses don’t fog up. Or warm nose with foggy glasses and can’t see anything. #winter

Selfie a day for a year, day 165, Jan 30, 2026 edition.

A person bundled up in winter clothing is walking a dog on a snowy path.

Meh.

Selfie a day for a year, day 164, Jan 29, 2026 edition.

A bearded man wearing glasses and a t-shirt with text is taking a selfie indoors.

Why do these launch screens for Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc. make me feel like I’m on a Windows computer?

A grayscale image of a person using a laptop displaying colorful graphs and data analytics is overlaid on a forest background, with a message about data collection and an option to continue.

Life goes by too quickly. One day you wake up and now you’re the parents The Tragically Hip were singing about.

A music player interface displays the song Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip with visible lyrics on the screen.

Just heard about another cool #music web app (via the ShopTalk Show D-d-d-d-d-discord) called Melt that collects your 25 most listened to tracks each month and builds a playlist for you. https://melt.fm/profile/ichris

More fun on the web like this please!

If all you’ve ever experienced is Spotify’s interface for uploading #podcast episodes, I hope some day you get to experience a proper podcast hosting company’s user interface and realize how much nicer it can be to prep your show each week.

Hairdid needed.

Selfie a day for a year, day 162, Jan 27, 2026 edition.

A person with glasses and a gray beard is looking at the camera with a curious expression, set against a softly blurred background.

New blog post: Shrinking Season 3 Trailer

Apple needs find the courage to remove the p0rn app formerly known as Twitter.

Somehow I’m just learning about Crucial Tracks now. It’s a social site where you get one post per day about a song you love or that’s impacted you. That’s the kind of social site I can get behind: I’m iChris over there.

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